Nick Mead, 55, of Helmdon, England likes to play with and rebuild vintage mechanized weapons. He saw a Soviet tank on E-bay and traded $37,000 of other armored vehicles for the tank that had fought in the Iraq war. In the course of restoring the monster on his farm with his friend Todd Chamberlain, they discovered one disconnected fuel tank contained over $2.6 million in gold bars. So Nick got his money’s worth.
A banker approaches the pearly gates sweating and struggling with a very heavy suitcase. St. Peter greets him and says “Set down the suitcase and, come on in.” “No way,” barks the banker, “I have to bring it in with me.” “What could possibly be in the suitcase that is so important you brought it into eternity with you?” asked Peter. The banker opens the suitcase to reveal 50 gold bricks. Saint Peter’s jaw drops open and he asks, “You brought pavement?”
John was a well to do widower in his 60’s and his friends were surprised to learn he had married a girl in her 20’s. “John how did you get such a young girl to marry you?” “I lied about my age. I told her I was 83.”
A Hollywood starlet had just broken off her engagement to her wealthy fiancée. “I saw him in a swim suit one day,” she explained, “and he looked so different without his wallet.”
After winning bronze in speed skating, Russia’s Olga Graf unzipped her suit forgetting that she had nothing underneath it. Officials immediately took back the bronze medal and gave her the gold.
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